JP2002290537A - Radio communications equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To record the fact that a call has been made in a hands-free manner in a portable telephone. SOLUTION: In step 100, it is determined whether hands-free call has been made. An operation history is called from a memory 39, and the determination of the presence of the hands-free speech causes the control to proceed to step 120. In step 110, a navigation system 50 detects the position over a fixed period of time. When the detected position is moving over the fixed period of time, the equipment determines that a vehicle in question is running (step 120). The equipment then records the fact that a hands-free call has been made during the running of the vehicle in a memory 39 as a hands-free call record, and also records it also in an IC card 40 (step 140).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a radio communication device, for example, a radio communication device such as a telephone device capable of making a hands-free call.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a hands-free device, which enables a driver of a car to talk using a microphone and a speaker separate from the receiver without having to use the receiver, has become widespread and has contributed to the prevention of accidents during driving. I have.

[0003]

The inventor of the present invention has studied the further spread of the hands-free device, and the use of the hands-free device is left to the driver's will. However, it is difficult for a third party to prove that even if the driver is driving with one hand while holding the mobile phone in one hand, it is difficult to reliably control that the driver is driving with one hand.

[0004] Even if the driver uses the hands-free device, it is difficult to reliably prove that fact to a third party after the operation is completed.

[0005] Therefore, if the use of the hands-free device is automatically recorded in the record, it is possible to easily control the one-handed driving of the driver, so that the user is encouraged to use the hands-free device. I thought I could.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide a wireless communication device capable of recording in a record that a hands-free call has been made.

[0007]

According to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a storage means (39, 40) for storing storage information; Call determination means (100) for determining whether or not a call is being made; travel determination means (120) for determining whether the mobile device is moving; When the judgment is made and the call judgment means judges that the hands-free call is being made, the storage means is controlled so that the fact that the hands-free call was made while the mobile device was moving is stored as the storage information. And control means (130) for performing the operation.

Thus, the control means controls the storage means to store the fact that the hands-free call has been made during the movement of the mobile device as storage information, so that the hands-free call can be performed while the mobile device is moving. It can be recorded in the storage means in the storage means.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, there is provided transmission means (31, 32) for transmitting transmission information, and the control means notifies the user that the hands-free call has been made while the mobile device is moving, by transmitting the transmission information. The transmission means is controlled so that the transmission is performed as follows.

[0010] Thus, the fact that a hands-free call has been made while the mobile device is moving can be received and left outside the wireless communication device.

Incidentally, the reference numerals in parentheses of the above-mentioned means are examples showing the correspondence with the concrete means described in each embodiment described later.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS (First Embodiment) FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of a portable communication system according to the present invention. FIG.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a mobile communication system;
1 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an in-vehicle communication device mounted in a vehicle.

The portable communication system is an in-vehicle communication device 1.
0 and the base station 20. The in-car communication device 10
It has a mobile phone 30, an IC card 40, a navigation system 50, and a hands-free communication system 60. As shown in FIG. 2, the mobile phone 30 includes an antenna 31, a radio unit 32, an audio processing unit 33, a speaker 34,
It comprises a microphone 35, an operation unit 36, a display unit 37, a control unit 38, and a memory 39.

The antenna 31 transmits a modulated signal using a radio wave as a medium and receives a received signal using a radio wave as a medium. The wireless unit 32 is controlled by the control unit 38,
Receiving the received signal from antenna 31, demodulates the received signal and outputs a demodulated signal. The radio section 32 is controlled by the control section 38 to modulate a transmission signal and output a modulated signal to the antenna 31.

The audio processing section 33 outputs a received signal to the speaker 34 under the control of the control section 38. Further, the voice processing unit 33 is controlled by the control unit 38, receives a transmission signal from the microphone 35, and converts the transmission signal into a transmission signal. The speaker 34 receives the received signal and outputs the received voice, and the microphone 35 receives the transmitted voice and outputs the transmitted signal.

The operation unit 36 has a plurality of keys and receives an operation by a user and outputs an operation signal to the control unit 38. The display unit 37 performs various displays under the control of the control unit 38. Then, the control unit 38 executes a call recording process according to the flowchart shown in FIG. Memory 3
9, together with the computer program of the control unit 38,
Holds various data.

In FIG. 1, an IC card 40 is detachably connected to the mobile phone 30 and holds a call history described later. In addition, the navigation system 50
Each satellite signal is received from each artificial satellite, and position information is obtained based on each satellite signal.

As shown in FIG. 2, the hands-free communication system 60 includes a hands-free device 61 and an operation microphone unit 6.
2 The hands-free device 61 includes a control unit 63 and a speaker 64, and the operation microphone unit 62 includes an operation unit 65
And a microphone 66. The speaker 64 receives the received signal and outputs a received voice, and the microphone 66 receives the transmitted voice and outputs a transmitted signal to the control unit 63.

The operation unit 65 outputs an operation signal to the control unit 63 in response to a user operation. The control unit 63 controls the mobile phone 3
The control unit 38 receives the transmission signal from the control unit 38 and outputs the transmission signal to the speaker 64. The control unit 63 includes an operation unit 65
And the transmission signal from the microphone 66 are output to the control unit 38 of the mobile phone 30.

Hereinafter, the operation of the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

First, in the hands-free communication system 60, when a telephone number of a call destination and an off-hook signal are input to the control unit 63 by operating the operation unit 65, the control unit 63 transmits the call signal to the mobile phone 30. Output.

Next, in the cellular phone 30, the control unit 38
Causes the memory 39 to store an operation history indicating that the transmission signal has been input from the operation unit 65.

When a transmission signal is input from the operation unit 36 instead of the operation unit 63, the control unit 63 causes the memory 39 to store an operation history indicating that the transmission signal is input from the operation unit 36.

Here, the control section 38 receives the transmission signal and outputs it to the radio section 32, and the radio section 32 outputs the transmission signal from the antenna 31 using radio waves as a medium. Then
When the base station 20 receives the transmission signal using a radio wave as a medium,
An incoming signal is transmitted to the other party's mobile phone 400 (see FIG. 1). Thereafter, the base station 20 establishes the mobile phone 400 of the other party.
When receiving the incoming call confirmation signal from the mobile phone 30, the mobile phone 30 and the mobile phone 400 are connected to each other via a line, and the connection signal is transmitted using a radio wave as a medium.

Next, in the cellular phone 30, the control unit 38
Receives a connection signal via the wireless unit 32 through the antenna 31 and executes a call process. Then, the connection signal is output to the control unit 63 of the hands-free device 61, and upon receiving the connection signal, the control unit 63 permits the operation of both the speaker 64 and the microphone 66 as a call process.

Thus, the speaker 64 receives the received signal and outputs the received voice, and the microphone 66 receives the transmitted voice and outputs the transmitted signal to the control unit 63. Thus, the driver starts the hands-free call using the speaker 64 and the microphone 66.

Here, the control section 38 performs a call recording process in a main routine, and also performs a call recording process by an interrupt process at regular intervals.

First, in step 100, it is determined whether a hands-free call is being performed. Then, the operation history is called from the memory 39 as described above. Since this operation history indicates that the transmission signal is received from the operation unit 65 as described above, it is determined that a hands-free call is being performed, and the process proceeds to step 120.

Next, in step 110, the position is detected by the navigation system 50 for a certain period, and when the detected position moves for a certain period, it is determined that the vehicle is running ( Step 1
20).

Next, the fact that a hands-free call is being performed while the vehicle is running is stored in the memory 39 as a hands-free call record and also in the IC card 40 (step 140). Further, the radio communication unit 32 transmits the hands-free call record from the antenna 31 (step 150).

Here, in addition to the fact that a hands-free call is being made while the vehicle is running, the control unit 38 determines that the call start time, the call end time, the device name of the hands-free device (name of the system used). As a hands-free call record,
You may make it transmit from the antenna 31.

Next, the base station 20 receives the hands-free call record and stores it in the computer 21 (step 2).
00). Further, the call charge is reduced (step 210).

Here, the computer 21 issues and sends a hands-free call record to the applicant with a monthly usage bill. Further, the computer 21 is connected to the police 2
2. When a request for introduction is received from the automobile insurance company 23, a hands-free call record for each user is answered.

Hereinafter, features of the first embodiment will be described. In other words, the mobile phone 30 stores the fact that the hands-free call is being performed while the vehicle is running in the memory 39 as a hands-free call record, so that the fact that the hands-free call is performed is recorded. be able to. Furthermore, since the hands-free call record is stored in the IC card 40 in addition to the memory 39, evidence of the hands-free call record can be securely stored.

In addition, the portable telephone 30 causes the radio unit 32 to transmit the hands-free call record from the antenna 31 and causes the computer 21 of the base station 20 to store the hands-free call record. Therefore, in addition to increasing the certainty of storing the hands-free call record, if the computer 21 of the base station 20 discounts the charges by the hands-free call, the computer 21 can further encourage the user to use the hands-free device, thereby further reducing the cost. The effect can be improved.

Since the police 22 can use the user's hands-free call record as proof that a hands-free call has been made, the police 22 can satisfactorily control one-handed driving with a mobile phone.

The automobile casualty insurance company 23 can encourage the use of the hands-free communication system 60 by using the hands-free communication system 60 and implementing a discount service for insurance premiums. Here, the automobile casualty insurance company 23 can easily prove the use of the hands-free communication system 60 by using the hands-free communication record.

(Second Embodiment) In the second embodiment, an example will be described in which the fact that a hands-free call is being carried out while the car is running upon receipt of an incoming call is recorded. In the second embodiment, the control unit 38 of the mobile phone 30 executes the incoming call recording process according to the flowchart shown in FIG. However, in FIG. 4, the same steps as those in FIG. 3 indicate the same operations.

First, in the second embodiment, when an outgoing signal is transmitted from the destination mobile phone 400 to the base station 20, the base station 20 transmits an incoming signal to the mobile phone 30.

Next, in the mobile phone 30, when an incoming signal is input to the control unit 38 via the wireless unit 32 via the antenna 31, the control unit 38 causes the voice processing unit 33 to output a ring tone from the speaker 34. At the same time, the control unit 38 causes the control unit 63 to output a ringtone from the speaker 63.

Next, in the hands-free communication system 60, when an off-hook signal is output to the control unit 38 through the control unit 63 by operating the operation unit 65, the control unit 38
Causes the memory 39 to store an operation history indicating that the off-hook signal has been input from the operation unit 65, and starts the incoming call recording process.

First, it is determined whether or not a call disable mode in which a call cannot be made is set (step 150).
If the call prohibition mode has not been set, the process proceeds to step 160 to start the call process.

That is, the operation of both the speaker 64 and the microphone 66 is permitted by the control unit 63. Therefore,
The speaker 64 receives the received signal and outputs a received voice, and the microphone 66 receives the transmitted voice and outputs a transmitted signal to the control unit 63. Thus, the driver 64
Then, a hands-free call is started using the microphone 66.

Next, in step 100, it is determined whether or not a hands-free call is being performed. Then, the operation history is called from the memory 39 described above. Since this operation history indicates that an off-hook is received from the operation unit 65 as described above, it is determined that a hands-free call is being performed, and the process proceeds to step 120.

Next, at step 110, the position is detected by the navigation system 50 for a certain period, and when the detected position moves for a certain period, it is determined that the vehicle is running.

Next, the fact that a hands-free call is being performed while the vehicle is running is stored in the memory 39 as a hands-free call record and in the IC card 40 (step 130). Further, the hand-free call record is transmitted from the antenna 31 by the wireless unit 32 (step 140).

Next, as in the first embodiment, the base station 20 receives the hands-free call record and
1 (step 200). Further, the call charge is reduced (step 210).

In implementing the present invention, the portable telephone 3
At 0, a hands-free call record may be displayed on the display unit 37 in response to the operation of the operation unit 36. This makes it easy to prove that a hands-free call has been made.

Further, if the call-disabled mode is set in step 150, the process proceeds to step 151, and the fact that the call is not possible is output from the antenna 31 by the radio unit 32. For this reason, the base station 20 informs the other party's mobile phone 400 that the mobile phone 30 cannot talk.

In practicing the present invention, the mobile device may be applied to a small boat such as a motor boat, irrespective of an automobile.

Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, the wireless communication device is not limited to a mobile phone, but may be a car phone, a PHS
Or a wireless device such as a commercial wireless device, an amateur wireless device, or a transceiver.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electric circuit configuration showing an embodiment of a mobile communication system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electric circuit configuration of the in-vehicle communication device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a part of the operation of the mobile phone and the base station shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the rest of the operation of the mobile phone and the base station shown in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference numeral 30: mobile phone, 36: control unit, 39: memory, 40:
IC card

Claims (2)

[Claims] A storage means (39, 4) for storing storage information.
0), call determination means (100) for determining whether or not a hands-free call is being performed in the mobile device, and travel determination means (1) for determining whether or not the mobile device is moving.
20) and when the traveling unit determines that the mobile device is moving, and when the call determination unit determines that the hands-free call is being performed, the mobile device is moving. And a control means (130) for controlling the storage means so as to store the fact that the hands-free call has been made as the storage information. 2. A transmission means (31, 3) for transmitting transmission information.
2) wherein the control means controls the transmitting means to transmit, as the transmission information, the fact that the hands-free call has been performed while the mobile device is moving. 2. The wireless communication device according to 1.